tech:

taffy

Microsoft To Buy Yammer For $1B

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

This just in.  A Wall Street Journal report by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Shira Ovide, Yammer has agreed to be sold to Microsoft. The price tag is a billion dollars. The WSJ cites people familiar with the matter, as a source for the news.

Yammer is a private social network for companies, that lets users collaborate across departments, geographies, content and business applications within a company. Yammer was integrated with Microsoft Dynamics in April. The integration enabled updates from the CRM solution to appear as activity stories in the Yammer Ticker. With this acquisition, we may start seeing social and collaboration features in other Microsoft products, MS Office, perhaps.

The WSJ confirmation puts to rest intense media speculation on the deal. So far both the companies have been tight-lipped.

You may also be interested in:

Just in

Apple sued in a landmark iPhone monopoly lawsuit — CNN

The US Justice Department and more than a dozen states filed a blockbuster antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, accusing the giant company of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market, writes Brian Fung, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez.

Google is bringing satellite messaging to Android 15 — The Verge

Google’s second developer preview for Android 15 has arrived, bringing long-awaited support for satellite connectivity alongside several improvements to contactless payments, multi-language recognition, volume consistency, and interaction with PDFs via apps, writes Jess Weatherbed. 

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is paid more than the heads of Meta, Pinterest, and Snap — combined — QZ

Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman has been blasted by Redditors and in media reports over his recently-revealed, super-sized pay package of $193 million in 2023, writes Laura Bratton. 

British AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft — BBC

Microsoft has announced British Artificial Intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman will lead its newly-formed division, Microsoft AI, according to the BBC report. 

UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $2 billion to providers following cyberattack — CNBC

UnitedHealth Group said Monday that it’s paid out more than $2 billion to help health-care providers who have been affected by the cyberattack on subsidiary Change Healthcare, writes Ashley Capoot.